digital art of a half-elf man with a curly moustache and a goatee wearing a long coat and looking distinctly gay
line art on my silly man
(Leopold; he/him)
#WIP #OCSky #DnD
Researchers in Brazilโs Amazon and Atlantic forests are using cameras on artificial canopy bridges to study how monkeys, sloths and other tree-dwelling mammals move through fragmented forests.
The findings could help design better wildlife crossings to reduce roadkill and habitat isolation.
Limited palette (olive green, indigo, warm white) landscape. High ridge line ascending left to right below pale, clouded but not dark sky. Hillside cloaked with shadows of trees, blurred and faded. Unfinished painting.
#workinprogress #oilpainting Ghosts
New Zealandโs critically endangered kฤkฤpล is seeing one of its most successful breeding seasons in years, with 59 healthy chicks hatched to date.
While the total adult population has grown from a low of 51 in the 1990s to 236 today, low reproduction rates remain a hurdle.
Quick doodle commission for @bloomsys.bsky.social!
Thank you. ๐
โMuscle Brainโ literally obscures sight.
Not protective. Just limiting. Not shielding vulnerability. Just preventing clarity.
โMuscleโโฆ not as armor.
But as blindfold.
What happens when stubborn clinging to illusions of brute force thereโs nothing but override vision
Britt-Ingrid Persson ๐ธ๐ช
Yatoyama Park Forest in Kanagawa This serene photograph captures the ethereal beauty of the forest at Yatoyama Park in Kanagawa, Japan. The image features a dense grove of slender trees with dark, textured bark, their straight trunks rising vertically toward a soft, luminous canopy. Bright, lime-green leaves of early spring create a delicate lace-work against the misty, white-toned background, giving the scene a quiet and dreamlike quality. Thin vines of dark ivy climb several of the trunks, adding a touch of deep green contrast to the pale surroundings. The forest floor is covered in a light layer of dried leaves and fresh green grass, with the soft, diffused light suggesting an early morning fog or a gentle spring day. The composition, framed with a soft white vignette, emphasizes the tranquil and restorative atmosphere of this natural woodland preserve.
Yatoyama Park, Kanagawa, Japan. The forest floor is covered in a light layer of dried leaves and fresh green grass, with the soft, diffused light suggesting an early morning fog or a gentle spring day.
The first sunset of daylight saving time. 6โx6โ oil
A forest in silhouette down low with fog and low clouds behind and above. Beyond that two forested ridges recently dusted with snow. Under very cloudy skies โฎ๏ธ Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. -Pema Chodron
southeast of Gates, Oregon
#photography
A storm gathering over the lake, Sep 2011. Taken with my Nokia 6220 classic.
A great blue heron perches on a fishing pier at a local nature area in Longmont, Colorado. In this horizontal color photograph, the heronโs head fills the frame in left profile. Gusts of 24 mph wind curl the feathers around its head. Its beak appears peeling and weathered, and faint marks suggest scars that may be healing from potential fighting during mating season. The background is a soft bokeh of blurred yellow vegetation across the pond, creating a muted backdrop. Its piercing yellow eye is encircled by a vivid periwinkle-violet hueโan intensified breeding coloration that appears during mating season to help attract a mate. Photo by Kort Duce
A great blue heron perches on a fishing pier at a local nature area in Longmont, Colorado.
#bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons
Six purple flowers with bright yellow centers.
Itโs still winter.
Iโll take it.
Driveway Monday.
Where the sky softens into ember tones,
and reflections move like slow brushstrokes,
the harbor settles into its gentle hush.
In this quiet light, you can feel calm rise within you, steady and serene.
#photography #sandieo #California #Sunset #sandiegobay
#GardensHour #MacroMonday #DailyFlowers #Flowers in my garden the other day ๐๐ #mygarden #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #GardeningBluesky #gardening #flower #gardeningfeed ๐ฑ #photography
รste die von einem Spinnennetz รผberzogen sind
โฆ in Watte gepackt โฆ
Some superheroes wear field boots, lab coats, or binoculars. This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate women in conservation. No challenge too daunting. These real-life protagonists are helping write the next chapter for wildlife and wild places, for people and the planet. ๐ ๐ช
Very misty in the Clun Valley this evening, but it made for this stunning photo as the light was dropping #thegardenjungle #Shropshire #Landscape #EveningLight
Toothed Somberwing
Camberwell Beauty
Pileated Woodpecker
Paragraph from Chapter 1 of Nature Within
I open #NatureWithin with an encounter in a Quebecois woodland ๐จ๐ฆ
Here are three of the species I met alongside an excerpt from the book ๐ฌ
graphic that has four photos: upper left is two sheep eating a pumpkin together, lower left is a black and white goat, lower right is a beautiful dark brown pig running on snowy ground, and upper right is a dark brown mini horse with snow on his nose. Text in the middle says "help us get 100 new monthly sponsors by march 31st!"
We have a huge goal we want to reach by the end of this month, and while it seems awfully ambitious you all have helped us accomplish seemingly impossible tasks in the past so we know you are capable of miracles! We would like to add 100 new monthly donors by March 31st. donorbox.org/mmfs-donate
We owe them a lot
#NatureWithin #Quotes
"Aerial athletes and unsung hunters by night, tawny frogmouths are more than just their Muppet looks."
#birds #WildOz
These plants produce clusters of fragrant, trumpet-shaped pink flowers. California Arboretum
Amaryllis Belladonna, known as Belladonna Lily or Naked Lady.
#Flowers
#Plants
#Gardens
#PhotographersOnBlueSky
Lower Labyrinth Falls near Coyote Wall on the Columbia Gorge.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing #PNW #Waterfall #photography
Yellow Crowned Night heron standing in shallow golden waters. Grey chest, black and grey wings and back, orange legs, yellow crest, black had with white markings
@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay challenge #StandingInWater Thanks Rob, wetland birds are my favorite subjects. Here's a Yellow Crowned Night Heron at sunset #Heron
Med' Gull
A photo of a male wood duck (Aix sponsa) floating on water in its colorful breeding plumage in diffuse lighting. It is a small duck with an iridescent green and teal crested head, vivid red eye with a yellow-orange and pale gray bill with a small black hook at the end, rich chestnut and lilac breast speckled with white, bold white facial stripes, blue wing feathers, and a cream-colored flank. Its reflection is visible in the smoothly rippling olive-green water below it, as it swims to the right.
Undeniably a handsome fellow. #BirdOfTheDay #Photogenic
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These stones make such a clatter as you walk over them, grinding beneath your feet. This photo was taken in 2009 when I owned a Nikon D300.
The black basalt stones of Cobble Beach, beneath Yaquina Head Lighthouse near Newport, Oregon. Going to sneak this in for tomorrowโs tags as well. ๐คญ
#MinimalMonday
#RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday
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A male Rufous Hummingbird sits on the wet, arching branch of a Japanese maple that is beginning to leaf out. The background is a blur of green grass and red unfolding leaves. The hummingbird is facing to the right, looking up, and is guarding his territory from other hummingbirds coming to the feeder. He is a russet brown with green on his wings and head and his gorget is a red-orange almost catching the light
A Rufous Hummingbird in my yard from May 2009, Nikon D300.
#SideProfile
#BirdOfTheDay
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๐ฑ๐๐ Today's Crocus tommasinianus. Yes the species is somewhat weedy & reseeds everywhere - but such welcome Winter color! Often thinner in mowed turf but individuals can really bulk up if seed lands in a less disturbed bed. Lots of pleasing variation in seedlings.๐ Iridaceae
